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Of whom may be had, by the samo Author, THE KNOWLEDGE QUALIFICATION: A Plan for the reciprocal Extension of Education and the Franchise. In Bvo., price Sixpence. PRIZE BOOK-SECOND EDITION. DII. MANTELL'S NEW WORK. This day was published, in '2 Vols. foolscap Bvo, with numerous Illustrations, price 15s. in cloth, lettered, THE WONDEItS OF GEOLOGY; or, a Famlliar Exposition of Geological Phenomena; being a Popular Survey of the Principles "and Discoveries of Modern Geology. By GIDEON MANTELL, LL.D., F.R.S., &c. &e. Author of the " Geology of the South East of England," &e. London : Reiff, and Fletcher, 17, Cornhill. FRAMPTON ON LIFE ASSURANCE. Just published, in Svc, price Is., AN ACCOUNT of the MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY ; with Remarks on the sub: jeet of Life Assurance LT:merely. By ALGERNON' FRAMPTON, Jun., M.D. Cantab. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, &c. Smith, Elder, and Co., Cornhill. This Day was Published, Dedicated to his Most Excellent Majesty, the K:nz of Hanover. DRAMATIC AND PROSE MISCELLA NIES. By ANDREW BECKET, Esq., Author of " Shakspeare's Himself Again." Third Edition. Edited by W. BEATTIE, M.D. In Two Volumes, crown Bvo. With a Bust of the Author. Price _ _ _ _ _ I6i. cloth lettered. London: C. Virtue, Ivy-lane, Paternoster-row. THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHI TECTS' JOURNAL, SCIENTIFIC AND RAILWAY GAZETTE. Price ls. The JUNE NUMBER will contain Drawings and Description of t'.:e Asylum for the Indigent Blind, Architectural Criticisms by Ralph Redivivus ; Remarks on the Parks; Paper on Building ma ; Reclaiming of Land in Tramore Bay ; Reviews of New Books ; Proceedings of the Eng:neers, and Architects' Institutes ; Pr,,gress of Railways ; Public Buildings, and Engineering Works ; List of New Patents, and several Professional Communications. Published at 57, King-street, Westminster; Hooper, Pall-mall. East ; and Groombridge, Panyer-alley. CHRISTIE'S DISCOURSES on the DIVINE UNITY. Fourth Edition, 3s. It is unquestionable that James and John and Peter anti Thomas and Martha and Mary recognised Jesus as the Scm of God every time they saw him. Did they worship him as God the Son every time they saw him? G. Fawdon, May's Buildings, St. Martin's-lane. ANTI-SLAVERY. AT a MEETING of DELEGATES, held at BROWN'S HOTEL, on TUESDAY, May 29, 1838, W. T. BLAIR, Esq., in the Chair, The following Preamble and Resolutions were unanimously adopted : The Central Negro Emancipation Committee, and the Anti. Slavery Delegates assembled in London, have learned with the deepest sorrow that her Majesty's .Ministers have succeeded in vir tually cancelling and setting aside the solemn decision of the House of Commons for the immediate extinction of the apprenticeship system, thereby continuing for two years to come the crime and the ills of slavery. They consider it therefore their duty to record the deliberate and unanimous expression of their sentiments in the following Re solutions : 1. That the conduct of her Majesty's Ministers in trampling on the sacred and acknowledged rights of the negro, and despising the prayers of an united people, exhibits a criminal disregard of every principle by which British and Christian Statesmen should be actu ated, and deserves the severest censure and reprobation of the country. 2. That those Members of the House of Commons who have supported the Government in their cruel policy in disregard of the opinions and wishes of their constituents, and in palpable violation of the dictates of humanity and justice, are unworthy of the support of a free and Christian people. 3. That as the recent decision of the House of Commons, by bitterly disappointing the just hopes of the Negro, has placed ita imminent peril the peace and safety of the Colonies, it is necessary to declare their solemn conviction that should any disastrous con sequences ensue, the responsibility will rest upon her Majesty's Ministers. 4. That the nation having appealed in vain to the justice of their representatives in-behalf of the oppressed, an additional obligation is created, to continue with increased energy the use of every law- Sul means both in this country and in the colonies, until slavery in reality, as well as in name, be utterly abolished. 5. That with these views they earnestly recommend to their friends and correspondents throughout the country the multiplica tion and affiliation of Anti-Slavery Societies—the circulation of the " British Emancipator," and such other publications as disse minate authentic information, and to be prepared to act upon any emergency that may arise, and to take advantage of every circum stance favouring the advancement of their great object. G. That Colonial Slavery having been hitherto mainly sustained by a system of bounties and protecting duties, operating greatly to increase the price of colonial produce, and thereby to tax the con sumers of such produce to the amount of more than three millions per annum, it is the duty of abolitionists, in connection with other means, especially to diffuse correct information upon this important subject, with a view to the removal of one of the principal impedi ments to the accomplishment of immediate emancipation. 7. That the sincere thanks of this body be tendered to Sir Eardley Wilmot, Bart., and the other Members of the [louse of Commons, who last evening. advocated by their speeches and their votes the cause of the abolition of the apprenticeship in the British Colonies. W. T. BLAIR, Chairman. THE NATIONAL LOAN FUND LITE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. (From the Weekly True Sun.) Perhaps there is nothing in modern civilization which so effectually alleviates human fe:ffering as the system of life assurances. It brings Lome comfiirt to a family suffering under the privation of its suppertar. It gives mental relief to the dying fu:sliand and father. That the prie. tice of life assurance should become universal must be the desire nf every one who would advance the general condition of the reeple of this coun try. Bet hitherto life assurances could only be effeeted by the compara tively wealthy, and even by them often at seine inconvenience. For to the man of moderate income, dependent probably upon his own active exertion, coming in by small degrees, daily, weekly, or monthly, the pay ment in one sum of the premium upon a policy of assurance must often be felt 3 d acuity and a build - len. The National Loan Fund Life Assur- ance Society, of which a full prospectus will be found in our advertising columns, appears calculated to carry out the principal of life assurance to its I.e:aim-I'e results. By that Society the smadest assuranc,s will be accepted, whilst the largest cen ire made with equal advantage. The premiums on all will be received by instalments adapted to the circum anew of the assurers. Not oely does this Society insure a gross suin or an annuity payable after the death of the party effecting the assurance, but it secures to ail individual an annuity during his own life, to commence et a lilted period. Thus, for instance, a man twenty years of age may se cure to himself at the age of fifty an annuity of 101. 19,. for the re mainder of his life by the payment of one shilling a-seer;, or 01. 12s. a.year. For the same sum he may secure an annuity of 271. l le. 4d. commencing at the age of sixty. And the Society presents these, we believe, unusual advantages :—should the coati ibutcr become sick, or be In want of a capital sum, he may withdraw cr borrow two-thirds of his previous payments upon the security of his policy. The per son contracting for an annuity on his own life, may, upon the arrival of the period fixed for its cc.mmence ment, receive its value in a gross sum of money, or lie may este ange it for a lerger sum payable at his death. Thus in the case before specified, a man of twenty paying one shilling a week, may, at fifty, instead of an annuity for his own life of 101. 12s. receive in cash 1361 12s„ or secure, to be paid at his death, :He/. 15A, , at sixty, instead of the annuity of 07/. lls 4d., he may r: ceise 269/. I Is. in cash, or 3461. 15s. at his death ; and in all cases without re ference to his actual state of health at the time his annuity becomes payable. Besides this, if the man shall die before the arrival of the age fixed for the commencement of his annuity, two-thirds of his actual payment:3 may' he secured to his family. These are benefits no Life Assurance Societies, Savings' Banks, or Benefit Associations, or all to gether, have as yet offered to the public. Not only do they seem fitted to every class ofmen, but vary with the varying condition of each individual. Suppose an industrious mechanic commencing life with the virtuous deter. mination of securing himself against the possibility of parish dependence contrives to cave from his wages a weekly shilling, and thereby secures an annuity at sixty of 271. 1 Is. ed. Henceforth he laughs at the workhouse. The first effort is alone requisite; for seven-eighths of our operatives may afford this small sum, and after one year's payment the habit of saving will have become confirmed. In progress et' time the custom of frugality has grown, tee workman has saved something be. yond the premium on his policy; he has married, lie has a family, and instead of requiring his annuity at sixty, he finds that he has eneugh to live ueon without it; and he resolves to conceit his annuity into a sum of 346/. 155., payable at his death to his fa,nily. Or he finds he can by an outlay of capital undertake to establish himself or his sons in some trade or business, and he prefers to re ceive in cash 269/. 11 s. In all or any of these cases, the simple resolution at twenty to save one shilling a-week will, by the aid of this Society, enable a large majority of the operatives of Great Britain *0 pass happily through life, secure a contented and virtuous old age, and leave behind them ptosperous families. • And this applies with equal force to all other classes. To the merchant'; reek rising to the condition of a trading c ipitalist ; to the salari:d officer and prof ess i onal m an, the option - of thus dealing with the fund his early care and provi dence has secured will be alike ads entageous. Then again, if sickness or death should overtake the contributor be fore the period fixed for the commencement of his enmity, the whole payments have not been lost, for two-thirds of the money may be re. eurned by h imself, or will remain to his surviving relations. We most earnestly recommend this Society to the attention of the public, and espe cially to the intelligent operatives of the kingdom. The most correct particulars of Epsom Races, with a P r:rait of the Winner or th e D erby, will appear in Bell's Life in I ondin, of Sunday , the ld ce June, The Price of Bell's Life is London is flvepeaca Office, 170, Strano, where can be had, together or sepa rate, for threepence each, part 1,2, s, gig, 5, Juni 6 . 0 f the lial!ery of Cornicalities. NEWSPAPER STAMPS. (From the Parliamentary Returns.) A Return of the Number of NEWSPAPER STAMPS at One Penny and One Halfpenny iisued to the several News papers in Enz,land, Se:Aland, and Wales, from the Ist De cember 1837 to the 31st of March 1838 inclusive ; specifying each Newspaper by Name, and the Number of Stamps iasu:•d each Month during thet period to each Newspaper. EXTRACT. LONDON EVENING NEWSPAPERS. The Sun... Dec. 1837 10=2,000 Jan. 1838 lll,OOO Feb. 183 S 96,000 Mar. 1838 lll,OOO -- • 420,000 Standard... Dec. 1837 78,000 Jan. 1838 105,000 Feb. 1838.. Mar. 1838 100,000 383,000 Globe Dec. 1837 72,000 Jan. 1838 90,000 Feb. 1833 72,000 Mar. 1838 72,000 -- 08,000 Courier..... Dec. 1837 31,000 Jan. 1838 39,000 Feb. 1838 3,2,000 Mar. 1838 136,000 FITEIRS AT LAW, AND NEXT OF KIN.- ILA, In answer to nnmereus enquiries, " THE `WEEKLY TRUE SUN" will publish the Advertisements until the Seven Hundred are exhausted, by a column each week. The WEEKLY TRUE SUN is a Large Quarto Paper of Forty Columns, Price 3d., edited by D. W. HARVEY, Esq., ALP, to whorl communicatiuns may be addressed, at the Office, 366, Strand. Orders executed by all Postmasters and News Agents in the United Kingdom. 3, St. James's-square, May 31, 1838. Published this day. COLONEL MACERONPS AUTOBIOGRAPHY. In 2 vois. demy Bvo., with Portrait. MEMOIRS of the LIFE and ADVENTURES of COLONEL FRANCIS MACERONI, Late Aide-de-Camp to Joachim Murat, King of Naples, Knight of the Legion of Honour and of St. George of the fwo . Ex-General of Brigade in the service of the Republic of Colum bia, &c. John Maerone, St. James-square. The deep interest which we take in the success of the National Loan Fund and Life Assurance Society, from a conviction that no institution was ever established so well calculated to improve the moral and physical condition of the middling and lower classes, will be readily inferred from the space which we this day devote to the report of a public meeting, convened at Reading on the 15th instant, for the laudable purpose of inquiring into its efficiency. The MAYOR presided ; and to the great credit of the clergy men of Reading and its vicinity several of them at tended the meeting, and expressed themselves most anxious to forw.ard the views of the Society, the instant they had satisfied themselves of its perfect adaptation to the wants and interests of persons in an humble sphere of The speech of the Rev. Mr. HOIME breathes throughout a spirit of the most enlarged Christian benevolence. It embraces the whole moral view of the question ; and to the Christian and the philantrophist what view can be more inviting? He well pointed out the bad fet.ling engendered among the members of Benefit Clubs, in consequence of the jealousy ith which they regard the claims- of sickness upon their funds : and admirably contrasted with it the ennobling sense of independence and self-respect originating in the ability of the artizan or labourer to have recourse in his distresses to a fund exclusively his own. " This Society," said. the Rev. Gentleman, " raises the character of the insurer in his nwn estimation, and in the estimation of others—a spirit of independence springs up in his mind—he is a man who has a stake in the country—who has a character to lose—and thus it becomes a powerful principle re straining him from vice. .By the exercise of a trifling self-denial he secures a future reward, and restores, in his own person, that spirit of independence, the absence of which among the poor has been the Inne of this country. The Society will promote, too, domestic happiness and contentment. The wife can no longer re proach the husband with making no provision for herself ' and her children ; and the husband, instead of being reck less in his habits, will become careful, saving, and con tentedly dispose], ant his attachment to his wife and family will be proportionately strengthened." No boon can be conferred on society equal to a re3toration of a proud, self-confiding sense of independLnce, and self-respect, among the labouring classes. The man who has proper self-respect, no matter how lowly his p-,sition i❑ the social scale, is capa ble of every virtue—the Lcing wl:o has lost it is a tool fit for the perpetration oF any vice. Only bring this noble feeling into practical operation—let it diffuse its ennobling influ ence among the poorer classes—and we shall hear no more about Poor Law abuses. The humblest cottager will close his eyes in death under the roof that sheltered him in the prime of life, surrounded by his fiends and family, in stead of experiencing that desolation of heart which all must feel who .Tee in the parish workhouse the only prospect of a road to the grave. Mr. I-huMP- TON, who preceded the Rev. Mr. HtJLME, in addressin c , ,, the meeting—and whose speech, regarded as an elu illation of the principles of the Loan Fund Association, has never been surpassed—dwelt upon this vie.v of the question with equal force, judgment, fee:ing, and truth. Ws select one extract, the substance of which ought to be en arson upon the heart of the Legislature, as w ell as up on that of every man and woman doomed to toil for their living throughout the British Empire : " I call upon you to co.optr:te with us in carrying out the principles of this Society, which will give to the la:Auring man the certainty of that independence—that full return of Ids industry in his old age which he has every c'aim to, but which he has never yet bern able to secure to himself. It has been ti nly said, that the vices of tie poor are the punishment of the rich.' If the farmer or lan&d proprietor has his ricks turned, his barns fired, does it not behove him to remove the Cause of such evils? And what are the causes but ignorance, and the want of the power of productiveness? Who is the rick_burner, the poacher, theincendiary, and the va;abond ? The man who has reccivtd no instr: xtion—who possesses no stake in the country—who having no thirg to lose, cars not for the losse3 of others-14'110 wanting bread and the very means of existence, commits that act which renders the food he wants more difficult of acquisition. On the other hand, the in dustrious well-disposed labourer is a blessing to his employer ; he im proves the value of 1:13 land—he increases his wealth—and therefore Fe;f.interest even, if not gratitude, should point out that his industry ought in his old age to be made available to himself, as it was to his master in his youth and in the vigour of his manhood. ' The happi ness of our fellow_creatures is incorporated with our own; in doing good to others we serve ourselves.' Let us carry out to its fullest extent this principle, if I may so term it, of noble selfishness, and soon, very soon, crime will uo longer walk abroad, and by reacting upon those placed by for tune out of the reach of temptation, punish them for their neglect. We do not sufficiently consider the obligations we owe the producer, the operative, and the tiller of the soil, upon whom our very exis'ence depends, and who, to procu r e us th e bl ess i ngs we enjoy, are exposed to many dangers and to much physical suffering; the clothes we wear, the fuel that warms us, every comfort and luxury of life, are ours through great dettrioration of health and risk of life; not a trade but has its peculiar disease, its own risk of decrepitude, suffering, and death ; and is it not hard that after such a life a man's old age should end in a workhouse—that his earnings, the produce of the sweat of his brow, should be fretted away for want of the fullest means of accumulation ? No! if such has been the case, let it be so no longer —unite with us, enable each man, the very poorest, to ac quire a stake in the country—to provide, by the industry of his youth, for the independence of his old age ; and I think you will agree with me when I say that that moral good, that moral revolu. tion, will be effected in this conntry with the further aid of education and religion, which railroads,in another sense, are now producing in the land." An appeal so just and so necessary cannot be addressed in vain to the good sense of the British people. Already have our own efforts, in behalf of the views of the National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society, met with a suc cess which has completely satisfied us, that all that is want ing to the triumphant establishment of an institution so ob viously beneficial to all classes, is public attention. To awaken such attention more generally, we have been in duced to re-publish, in another part of The Sun, an article which appeared in this journal of the 9th inst., and which at the time attracted a degree of attention wholly attribu table to the importance of the subject. It may have escaped the notice of some of our readers, and such, if they belong to the middling or lower classes, will thank us for now directing their attention to it. It is satisfa , ;tory to learn from the City, that the detate in the House of Coay.ms, on Tuesday evening., had favourable effect on the Funds. Consols advanced 1- per cent., which seldom occurs unless some information of mo ment transpires. So ready are men to hope for good, that the mere promise of a cessation of party warfare by our leading statesmen, for little else was promised, immediately makes them believe that a multitude of benefits will be realised. II statesmen only weighed well the immense advantages which even their abstaining from party quarrels conferred on the community, to say nothing of any positive benefits they might possibly bestow it uuitsd to do good —they would Surely, out of regard to their own interest and reputation, be somewhat more patriotic, and less selfish than at present. We are willing to believe that the debate of Tuesday evening is the harbing , l of a great improvement in their conduct, which may tend to gain for them public esteem and approbatiornin which they are now greatly deficient. They have, however, rather up-hill work of it, and they may be assured that tke utmost cau tion, and the utmost vigilance to guard against their beset ting sin of faction, and the utmost attention to the public welfare exclusively, will be necessary to gain and preserve the public confidence. Sir ROBERT PEEL, in the debate on Tuesday everieg, gave it as his opinion that the Clergy of Ireland should not vest the money in land into which,on the scheme of mlemp tion, the tithes are to be converted ; and he stated at consi derable length his reasons for not wishing the Church to he a great landowner. 1 - 1, also stated that tic preferred the stocks to land as the more profitable, and perhaps as the safer in vestment for the income of the Church. This marks a wonderful change both in society and opinion. Land, according to Sir ROBERT PEEL, is neither so profitable nor so secure as the public funds. The public funds are. altogether the creatures of law ; they exist by Act of Par merit, and Sir ROBERT PEEL would actually place the Clergy , wholly at the mercy of the Legislature. His pro position is directly at variance with the general opinion, which goes to assign land, or income derived froM land, as the only safe and ceit lin income, increasing as society advances, for the support of the Church. How the Clergy of the Church of England will like this new doctrine of their great political chief, we arc not aware ; but as a step to placing the Church completely in the power of the House of Comm rns, coming from him, it much astonished us. We cannot help thinking that this opinion has been forced en Sir RoDEnT, by the insecurity which would belong to landed property in the hands of the Protestant clergy in Ireland. In the course of the debate, he remarked that the hostility to tithes there had made rent insecure• But is it not likely that the same hostility will continue, and may it not operate on the House of Commons through Irish Members, after the property of the clergy sh a ll b e invested in the funds? We believe it would, as it would be equally deserved; and moreover we believe that this hostility, and the just desire of the public to get hold of the pro perty which is now appropriated to the clergy of one sect, would pursue it to the funds, the security of which might be endangered, as the security of rent is endangered in Ireland, by giving a large portion of them to the priest hood of a small minority of the people. Let the fund holders beware of the project. Sir EDWARD SUGDEN has given notice that it is his intention to move the f)liowing amendinent, when the House of Commons goes into Committee on the Copyright Bill : I. That the further term shall belong to the author and his representatives, where he has not parted with his copyright. 0 . That the further term shall belong to the assignee, where the assignment was wholly or partially for natural love and affection. 3. That the further term shall belong equally to the author and his representatives, and the assianee and representatives, where the aßs;gnment was wholly for a money consideration. 4. That where the assignee of the copyright is also assignee of plate;, which were the principal object of the work, as in the instance of " Lodge's Portraits," the fur ther term shall belong- to the assignee. 5. To reduce the term from GO to 40 years. The first. of these amendments seems to call fur no other comment than that it is a mere superfluity, the Bill having already virtually embodied it in the 4th clause. The alteration proposed in the second of the Learned Gentleman's amendments, is not founded on any principle either of equity or common sense. It takes for granted that because an author has " for natural love and affection" given up the copyright which he possessed for 28 years, therefore he would have given it up if his term of possession had been sixty years. This appears to us a perfeztly un warranted infereiice. It is surely to be presumed that the author, in such a case', knew what he was about ; was able to appreciate, in some measure, the value of his gift ; and did not intend to give more than his assignment actually expressed. We put it to Sir EDWARD SUGDEN whether, if he were called- upon as a Judge in Equity to decide on the construction of a will in which an author bad left to a legatee bis copyright in a certain work, he would not give it as his opinion that ths testator's intention was to bequeath the copyright for the term fixed by the law as it existed in his lifetime, and not for any further term that might be granted by future Acts of the Legislature. The third amendment prryoses to divide the advantages of the further term between the author and the publisher, or their representatives, where the copyright has been sold. This would be a manifest injustice to the author. What right or title has the publisher to tile author's work after the term for which he purchased it has expired ? Were the law to remain as it is, ha would then have no more in terest in it than any one individual out of tke millions that constitute the aggregate of the human race. It would Men ha the right of any of those numerous individuals to pub lish it, if such should be hi; pleasura ; and, therefore, to give to the pubiiiher the half of the value of the copy right for the enlarged term, under the plea of compensat ing hint for any peculiar loss that he will sustain, is a subterfuge ef the very shallowest description —mere fudge, that canr,ot bear a moment's examination. The fourth amendment, ho;:ever, goes even further than thi, inasmuch as it proposes to surrender to the pub lisher the whole of the author's right in such works as consist partly of plate; and partly of letter-press, and in which the plates were the " principal object of the work." Now, to say nothing of the sweeping injastice of such an er.ectment, how is it possible, in almost any instance, to decide whether the letter-press or the pictorial embellish ments are the " principal " object of the work ? To at tempt to establish a standard by which to determine the cndhssly varying degrees of relationship between these mu tually necessary elements of bookmaking- would be absurd, and to introduce into the Bill a clause so vaguely expressed as this, would be nearly the same tiling as to enact that there should be a laws.ait in every such case. The class of eases intended to come under the ope ration of this amendment differs in nothing. from those in which, by additions made to the briginal work by the publisher, part will Lelong to him and part to the au- thor at the expiry of the existing term. In all such cases, the best way is to leave the rarties to settle the matter between themselves. They will soon discover that it is their interest to settle it on equitable terms. At a u events, the utmost to which the law should interfere between them should be to ordain a suLmission of the disputed pcints to arbitration. . As to the last of the Learned Gentleman's amendments, we trust it %sill not for a moment be entertained. perpe tuity of copyright is the undoubted right of the author. The Bill, in extending the existing legal term to sixty years from the time of the author's death, deals out to him but a small portion of justice ; but Sir ED WARD SuoDEN would pare dawn that portion to still more minute dimensions. For this no good reason can possibly be assigned, and we have not the least fear of the House of Commons being sophisticated into its adop tion, by any of those hair-splitting refinements in which the Learned Gentleman delights to indulge. The following extract from the Lisbon Corre3pondenee of a Morning Contemporary, dated the 22d inst., will not fail, we trust, to attract the notice of her 111.A.trry's Mi nisters. It is pretty evident that we have been made the dupes of Portugal, whose Government has not the remotest intcnticn of really putting an end to the Slave 'i'rat'e, from a belief that England will not carry her threats into execu tion. A few broadsides, and an execution or tv.o for pi racy, will best eradicate an error so fatal to the best interests of humanity . "Intentioned in a former letter that the Roge du Tage, a French ves- Set ehartere4.l by the Portuguese Govern►ttent to convey the Governor of St. Thomas's to his destination, was intended from all appearances to be employed in the slave trade, and that it could not well have been so without the knowledge of the authorities here. I have teen since in formed that there is no doubt whatever of the perfect knowledge and connivance of the authorities with respect to this veisel, in which the agent of the slavers here with otl.er well-knowit indivividuals are deeply interested. 13 fact the authorities, generally speaking, are either implicated themselves or bribed by the parties more immediately interested ; or, if not bribed, are so far intluenced that no steps towards putting down the trallic need ever he apprehended on their part. Abroad and in all the colonies this is notoriously the case, and the con nivance of the colonial authorities in the slave trade has been abundantly acknowledged by the parties themselves." The Paris Journals of Tuesday continuo to report the progress of the Budget for 1839 in the Chamber of De puties. This is the great business of the year, and to the no small delight of Ministers they are likely to accomplish it with little difficulty. The opposition numbers but few able financiers, and those few are content to remain silent, provided among the last list of jobs there appear a few for the exclusive benefit of their respective constituencies. In the sitting of Monday the Chamber of Deputies finally adopted the following articles, forming the substance of the New Railway Bill :-- " Art. I. The duty to the public treasury on the prices of places shall be collected for the railroads on the portion of the tariff corresponding to the price of the transport. " 2. From the date of the promulgation of the present law this dis position shall be applicable to the lines of railroad now granted. " 3. For the railroads of the tariff of which is either not fixed or not divided into two portions corresponding, one to the transport, the other to the toll, a duty of one-tenth shad be collected on the third of the total price of the places. . 4. In each t r di tr th e R a il roa d C ompan i es shall have the power of placing special carriages, the places in which shall be paid for according to private agreement with the passengers ; but the number of places in these carriages shall not exceed the tenth of the total number of the places in the train.'' ÜBERT and his accomplices, convicted last week of a plot against the Government, and sentenced to various terms of impriionment, have appealed from the judgment of the Court of Assizes to that of the Court of Caseation. The appeal was lodged on Monday, and we trust will lead to an abrogation of all the sentences, but that passed on HUBF.RT himself. The conviction of the others on the evidence produced against them was most disgraceful to the Jury. The following paragraphs from a leading French Journal, shows the anxiety of the Government with respect to the present aspect of affairs in Africa : " The news from Tunis, by way of Genoa, which is as late as seven teen days, mentions the hostilities committed against us by the troops of the regency. The tribes in question who inhabit the mountains bor. dering on the two territories, had been stirred up last year by the gold and intrigues of Achmet Bey; beaten by the Tunisians, their warriors, for the most part, remained in the interior of the province of Constan tine. At present they form a centre, around which all the robbers and and vagabonds of the t wo country rally. The Government of Tunis does not own them, and declines, as much as it can, all responsibility. " By what that Government cannot disavow are its own acts, the vex ations, the spoitations to which French commerce is subjected, and for which no justice can be obtained. Though these facts are notorious, the Minister attempts to deny them It seems probable that this affair, which becomes more complicated every day, has something to do with the orders given to Admirals Gallois and Lalande. It is impossible that it can be permitted any longer that Frenchmen shall be insulted and robbed in a country which France has twice saved from the Turks and Achmet Bey." We have no intelligence from Spain of a later date than the accounts which appeared in this Journal of yesterday. Letters from Malaga allude generally to the discovery of a Carlist plot in that city on the 11 th inst. A person named DON ANTONIO XIMENEZ was seized, and a number of Carlist passports and proclamations found on his person. The porter of the Carmelite convent was likewise impli: cated in the business, and in consequence thrown into prison. Senor Cantos BAP.RITANO, of that city, has been convicted for the murder of General ST. JUST, whom our readers may remember was killed in a popular tumult about two years ago. FRENCH FUNDS. - num, MAY 29. Fire per Cents., 109 f. :55c. 40c. Loc, Four per Cents., Three per 81f. 15c. 25c. 20c. Bank Actions, 2,715 f. Re.nte de Naples, ICOf. 70c. Roman Five per Cents. 101. Spanish - Actives, 22 1 i Spanish Passives, 5. Belgian Loan, 102.4. Belgian Bank, 1,42 f. 1,430 f. 1,-125f. Portuguese Loan, Three per Lents. 24 214. ria)tiati Loan, 45(T. 445 f. 43'f. LATEST PRICES. Five per ('cuts. 109 f. sf.c. Three per Cents., SIL SOC. Bank Actions, 2,715 f. Romans, 101. Belgian Loan, 102!.>. Belgian Bank, 1,4 - 25 f. Spanish Actives, Spanish Passives. 5 Haytian Loan, 430 f. BELGIAN I. U NDS—Baussms, 111 av •-9. Actual Deist, 2 , ,5i per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. WI% Loan of Thirty Millions H i Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent 97 Society of Commerce, 4 t per Cent 165 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent llO National Society . —Brussels Papers, May 29. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VICNNA, MAY 21. Five per Cents. Dfletalliques Fora per Cents. 4 Three per Cents. Bank Shares —Ailgemeine Zeitung, May he WITH WHICH " THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON : THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 31, 1838. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 31, NM. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN Eer the Week ended: May 23, (338, :made up from the Returns , of the m I n Tectors in the differe n t Citi es and Towns in Englani and Wales, per perial Quarter. Wheat......... fills, 4d. I Oats 8ar1ey......... 31 s 2d. Bye 3IPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX WEEKS PRECEDING. Wheat ......... 60s. 641 Oats Barley 30a 9d. 1 Rye - DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. Wficat ......... 268. Sd. Oats Barley . I 1 ........ I6s. 10d. Rye THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. j Barley. I Oats. Beans. I'ease. --------_____ Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to S. 3. to S. S. to S. Abi ngdon-......--- 44 59 30 34 20 30 38 - - Andover 47 52 29 31 25 - 43 - - - Birmingham 36 48 30 40 16 22 - 33 - - B tidport .....---. 33 59 3 0 311 26 30 - 39 - - Cirencester -.-.-_. 44 51 27 32 20 25 32 40 - - raringdon---. 35 46 26 20 26 30 - 46 - Guildford -- 38 54 28 35 29 30 - 46 - - Fienley.-..----- 42 58 26 32 03 26 .- 43 - - flcrefor.l _„ r 36 49 "6 32 22 29 - 46 - 4'' Hi g h w"rlil 42 00 32 42 j2B 31 - 51 - - ! t laidenl,eail - 32 58 24 39 I . 20 20 34 44 34 33 Monmouth- 46 43 32 31 22 29 31 40 - - 11e ,'.'',Iing .....- 34 37 25 35 2 , 1 27 33 42 35 - '-'"' 'l'Llry----- - 14 54 :30 34 20 28 41 46 Southampton - 45 5 ' 33 40 28 30 --- - 42 - - Stroud -....„,,...._. 36 44 128 36 20 24 - 4 6 - -- Tewhe,latiry . 51 - :15 - 20 :30 - 40 - - Uxbridge 40 49 '2B 32 17 28 - 40 - 42 Warltace.----._. 3 4 52 "4 31 20 25 33 42 33 48 55,7 %nniiister 30. 40 27 54 22 26 36 40 - - Wind.sor„._. 59 ..._ _ ...._ 21 22 - '5 - - W•irceat er 53 Sr 132 36 30 l' , 46 46 48 - CIIELTENII.A 31 MARKETS. Per Bushel. s. d. to 5.(1.1 -- Pet lb. d. tr, d Wh eat ttarley -0 401 Aiittton Oats 3 0 43 I Veai Beans . ... ... 4 0 5 4 PGrk Be.a..e ~. CIIELTENIIA. Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. Wheat vs'arlry -0 401 littton Oats 3 0 431 Veal Beans . ..... ... 4 0 5 4 PGrk Bea:e ffay 5l. Os to 51.10;. ed. p. r ton. II U LT. AI Aa K EL—May ': . .0. Wheat, Old 523 SS& cos. .....New sos. 283 Gr's. ---- Foreign Oats, Poland —s. 20s. "2s .....Old —s. 21s. 26v. -- Small or Feed.... —v. 17s. ISs —s. —s 2.01. --- F:reign Barley, Norf. & Suf -- Foreign Beans 2:Ss 20s. 545. F.,reign Pease, White.. ''arcs 2ils. 28..5. 32s Forelgm 9.85.20:. 5.1:2?. Rapeseed. in bond lone Free, per last 221. Os. 24'. A new novelist has just made his appearance, who, if we are not greatly mistaken, will take a prominent place beside Bulwer, Marryat, florae, Smith, and the two or three other literary stars of the present day. We allude to the author of the new historical romance called " Shakspeare and his Friends." The Athenunz, which, though severe in its judgments, is sure to discover and acknowledge true genius, hails his appearance with evident pleasure. " A novel,'' says this critic, " bearing traces of care in the design, and scholarship in the execution, is not to be passed over without praise and attention; even though the care has been lavished on an impracticable subject, and his scholarship has led the author among those brilliant beings of immorta lit y whom no study could enabl e hi m to call up and display to our satin_ faction —so far does imagination outrun performance. Precisely in this predicament stand the author and the novel here brought into court ; but we respect the former for the devotion which has led him to choose Shakspeare and Ben Jonson, the virgin Queen, and the Knight of the smirched mantle, as the principal personages of his tale. We respect I him t h e more as he has not chosen ignorantly, that is, without well com prehending the time, place, and personages." We cannot doubt that this work will create a considerable sensation in the literary world. STATE OF TRADE. —The improved demand fur twist which has existed for two or three weeks past still continues; and though there is no material change in price, sales are more easy to make than they were a week . ago. For p r i nt i ng cloths there was a very active d ema nd at the close of last week; and, though it has slackened a little during the last two days, prices cominue very firm. There is also an improved demand for domestics, and other stout calicoes, which had pre. viGusly been very much depres se d ; and the goods market generally has ex hibited decided symptoms of improvement. The accounts from the woollen and worsted markets in Yorkshire is also, we understand, de cidedly, favourable.-31anchester Guardian. STRIKE OF THE JOURNEYME N BOOTMAKERS. —Within the last few days almost all the journeymen bootmakers at the west end of the town have "stru c k" for an advance of wages. The m asters have, however, firmly resisted them, notwithstanding the in convenience and loss to which they are thereby subjected, particularly at this season of the year. It is expected that the "strike" will not be of very long continuance, as the men see, from the firm position taken by the masters, that they h ave no chance of obtaining their demands. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, MAY 29.--We have had a fair inquiry from both grocers and refiners since our last, which b e i ng met on liberal terms by the importers, a good business has been done, nearly all the Sugars at present landed having been brought to market and sold, still the wants of the buyers are far from b e ing satisfied, and we may fairly anticipate that the demand will con tinue good. We may quote strong and grey fur the pan from 535. to dOs. for very superior ; good bright grocery Jamaica, from 475. for yep. low, to 6135. for goad and fine,—There are but few Rums at present on the market, and we can therefore, at present, not give any quotation.— But little doing in any other articles of West India produce.—Bristol Oaeetk, THE PLAID OF THE NORTH. ADDRESSED TO A LADY ON BEHOLDING HER BEAUTIFUL PLAID. Strike the Harp of the North, for the plaid c.f the High:ands, Till beauty and valour shall honour the strain— Strike it up, till its glory resound o'er the iilards; \\There bosoms-of rapture shall praise it Let the LoWands exult in their civilized story, And boast their apparel—too tame to be free! But let mine be the mountain, romantic in glory— The Plaid of the Neil.h is the mantle for me! 'Tis the robe of all hues, in vat iety bleeding— An emblem of friendship, fidelity, worth ; But its charm is best seen when divinely descending O'er beauty's fond bosom, the pride cf the North. I have witnessed the brave of alt nations before me, Yet felt no emotion, their vesture was art— But the Highlander rose, and his spirit came o'er me, While Nature's wild ufantle el:ravished my heart. I have witncssed the fair robed in fanclful splendour, And mused on the it charms, though I could nut a:tprove; Dot when beauty shone forth in the plaid, I grew tender, And worshipped the magic that taught me to hove. 'Tis the garment for beauty, adorned while adorning, The mantle for valour is Calotion's plaid,— But when loveliness smiles in its hum—'tis the morning, With the rainbow of glory thrown over her head. LLOYD'S SHIPPII.'siG.—(TE-lIS DAY Drer., llav 30.—Wind W.S. W., fine.—Saired this morning the Mi nerva, Inglediorough, and Golden Spring. Arrived and proceeded for the river the St. James, Lebor, from New York; and Inn, from Jamaica. Came down from the river and remain the Coriolanus, Ware, for Qu, bee; Nora Creina, Artis, for Llaneily, &c.; Florence, Cundc, for Car diff; Sumatra, Harvey, fur Alexandria; Hawke bury, Biggs, for Que bec; Sarah, Elwood, for Ilerbice• and Duke of Wellington, Smith, for the &nit!' Seas. The West Indian, fir Jamaica; and Perthshire, Chris tie, for Llanelly,.l,alled. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 30.—Wind S.S.W., (inc.—Arrived her Majesty's ship Winchester, from the Cape of Good Hope. Sailed the John M c Lellan, for the Cape and Sydney ; and the Numa (transport), for the Eastward ; her Majesty's ship Winchester, for Chatham. PLYMOUTH, MAY 29..—Wind S. W. FALNiouTu, lfar 29.—Wind S. to W S. W; strong breezes with rain. —Arrived the Gauditana, Ruez, from Havannah. Sailed the Portia, Hatchard, fur Hamburg; Greyhound, Tucker, for ditto ; Elsinoor, for Dordt. The Economy, Davis, from Newry, pile in here, bound to London. LIVERPOOL, May 30.—Wind N. W., very light.—Arrived the Alex ander, Self, from Honduras; Harmony, Morel), from Cadiz; Auguste, Caroline, from Stettin ; Dine, Back, and Ft Ls, Renging, from Rostock. GUERNSEY, May 28.—Arrivesl the Gotfried Paul, Zitzow, from Danzic; 'Marie Wallace, from Danzic; Freya, Neva, and Fordvns kit ld, Christopher, from Gottenburg. _ _ JERSEY, MAY 28.—Arrived the Ives, Joffg,ren, Einigheden, Olsen, and Julie, Le Brun, from Gottenburg ; Acicjuste, Olsen, from Rostock. Fisur.anow, MAY 9.9.—Arrived, the Bertha, from Stettin; Attelie Blasin, from ditto; Anna Hay, Rieke, from Konigsberg. STQCKTON, MAY 30.—Arrived, the Normandie, Tate, from Memel. HULL, Mar 30.—Arrived, the William the Fourth (steamer), from Hamburgh ; the Sympathy, Parrate, f,om ditto. MILFORD, MAY 9. 8 . —The Argyle, Whiteside, on shore leaky, bound to Alecravon. GLOUCESTER, MAY 30. Arrived the Convention, Giestz, Memel. NEWPORT, MAY 29. Arrived the Maria Elizabeth, from Bilboa. KINSALE, Mar 28.—Arrived off port, tho Henry, Wood, from New York ; Sir John Grenville, from St. John's, New Brunswick. CORK, MAY 28.—Arrived the St. Reeves, Bailey, from London. LEITH,. MAY 28 —Arrived the Hoffman, Soper, from Danzic ; Jep tha, Charlotte, from Gottenburg. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY (THIS D.IYI, TWELVE O'CLOCK. _ . Owing to the very few arrivals this morning, and none of them of any consequence, we have a great scarcity of news. Nevertheless the British market continues on the improvement, and appears at present very buoyant. Consols, which closed yesterday at 933 1 for the Account, opened this morning at 93,i i i—Mcney, 9581. Exchequer Bills, 68 70; Bank Stock, 203 206; India Bonds, 69 70 ; India Stock, 271. In the Foreign Market little doing as vet; Spanish Active opened at the closing price with Coupons, 21'1 221; Portuguese steady, 26i :i ; Three per Cents., 243 . 25 ; Brazil, 80i SI ;: Mexican, 26 : 1 7i ; Colombian, 27 IA i ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents , 544 ic. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE tJ'Cl—it.K. Bank Stock ~, —I • odia ' I Stork '7o 3 per Cent. %EN: . 9 4 ,,f, !Ditto Bolds 1 , " . . 3 per Cola. Cons ............9514 1 / 0i, 1 ,, ; South Sea Suck .... . . ..... ..... -- 3j4 per Cent.. .. . . . _10:0 Inn:lair, ......., - Dia° Re 1.... ...... New N per Cent.... ..... ... 103 23 9 3 per Cent. Annabel:, :75‘... New sper Cent... .. ..... ..., — Exch. Bills, C: 0 Rink Lung Annultiestoexpire I Ditto 5OO 7O 68 um Jan 5, 1:-51) 15,!,9 3-161 Ditto 511.3 i! ..• .... ......... 70 68 em. Oct. 10, 1859.... l5 Ditto Co - nine-. ial Jan. 5, MO ls''9 i Ditto AdvertifeJ. ....... .... pm. Jan. 5, .1336 ....... April 5, 18.30 - . V;03.4 ...-.. man. , PRICES GP FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds ...... Belgian Cltto Acco;:nt . Brazilian Bon Is • Dato Account liaenns A yri:s Sands ..... c... .Aceount.., ..... Bonds .... ..... .., , Comola for Account 9 5% % THIS DAY AT ON.II 0 . c1,0,t, Peruvia., Uonsis . (Ditto Acct ....,..,.. „ Pcirtugueheßonl,....... .... .... 7:i% Ditto Nam Bowl; ... 3ii„ Ditto Account ...... l7 7 Ditto, 3 per mat.— . 0 . 1,7 4 5 DittD AccouLt - Pr, elan Be.nds.. __ Ditto Account . C Otani)lan Bonds Ditto ....... CAtimbian Bonds, MN Ditto A.ccount D.nt,t) Bo! ...... Ditto Account Clcc,k Ditto Bonds, 1525 Ditto Account Boidg, 5 Per cent, Ditto Account ........ Ditto, 6 pci Ditto Account ituszinn Ecnits, 1.8-L'2 Ditto Account — ritta Aleta2ic...... .......... Spanish Bonds — Ditto Account ......, ....... Ditto 13,4 Aid, IS ik 21? ;; Ditto Account •l' I Ty, `1 French, 5 I,r c,rki...., -----.- 4 pi..r cent —f . —c . 3 pc.r cent. 4l. 25 P...xcl.ange 2sf. 50 Dutch, Tx, per ce ,- 1 `i474,3i Ditto Account .......... ..... 5-17;, 44 Ditto, '. jrtT c.9rit IOJR4 I Noapolit:_n ........ ...... ICON PRICES OF SHARES TIII. S DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK, Paid. Per Share Brazilian Imperial Mining Co (issued at 51. prn.) 20 22 Ditto St. John del Rey .. S -51 i Br.tish Iron Company Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Company 2O 14 (Anion and Southampton Railway Company - 50 43 London and Croydon Railway Company 2O 1. , % Ditto New Scrip Asphalte, Claridge's Pat en t ...............2 9 J4 London Joint Stock Bank lO 10 , ,,' 2 HALF-PAST ONE. .. _ . . ... We are again happy to state that the accounts from our inantifaCtur_ ing districts are of a favourable description. At Manchester the de mand for twist continues, although there is no material change in prices. The demand for printed cloths tuts slackened a little, but prices continue firm, and the market for goods generally exhibits decided symptoms of improvement. The accounts from the woollen and wmtted markets in Yorkshire are also favourable. Up to the pre.,ent period we have an exceedingly blank day—no fur ther arrival from any quarter, and we are very dull in the City. Con sols, which were in the early part of the morning buoyant, are not quite so good at present ; owing to a sale of Consols of 50,000 by a respect. able broker, they have receded from 951 oto 951 to for the Account; Money 95 to a ; Exchequer Bills lower, 70 68 ; India Bonds 70 ; Bank Stock 2041 ; India Stock 270. In the Foreign Market very little doing ; Spanish Active 21 s, with Coupons; Portuguese 361; Three per Cents. 2.1! 25 ; Dutch Two.and. a-Half per Cents. 54. The Share Market heavy, and very little doing; Claridge's Asphalte receded to 7! premium. 'l'he following has just been posted at the Royal Exchange : " The Governor and Company of the Bank of England do hereby give notice, that on and after the 31st instant they will be ready to receive applications for loans upon tha deposit of approved Bills of Exchange not having more than six months to run, such leans to be repaid on or before the 17th July next, with interest at the rate of 3 1 / 2 per Cent. per Annum, and to be for sums not less than 2.,000/. each." " Bank of England, May 31." THREE 0' CLOCIC' Consols for Account, 95 % I A. THE FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per I ent. lied 3 per Cent. Cons 95 Ditto Old Annuities — 3!4 per Cent — Ditto New Annuities :3.! per Cent. Red lOIN Lx. Bills, 1,0001 9 %d 71 pm Ness 314 per Cent 11Wi, Ditto 50 1 71 prr Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001 71 pnr Jan. 1861 .3-10 Bank Stock fu r Opp. ' ) 0 ,3 Oct. 1850 Jan. ISCO FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian, 5 per cent — 'Portuguese Bondi, 5 per ce n t . . 7314 Belgian, 5 per cent — I Ditto New Ditto Brazilian Bonds BO Prussian, 5 per cent Buenos Ayr s, (i per cent. (Indian, 0 per cent — Ditto, Metallic.. Colombian), 6 per cent — Spanish, 5 per cent 21° ,7 ,8 Ditto, 1524 — Ditto, Consolidates Danish, 3 per cent French, 5 per cent. Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per cent. Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent — French, :3 per cent Ditto, 6 per cent., 1525 — , 'utch 2;4 per cent......... „•... 51.34 Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent ln, Ditto to, '5 pen. cent. 104);4 (CLOSING PRICE OF SHARES.—(TIIIS DAY). Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Dublin and Kilkenny Railway ..... O7l, Great Western Railway 9S% London and Brighton Railway. London and Birmingham Railway Ditto Quarter Shares London and Son.hamptnin Railway London and Croydon Railway London and Croydon Railway (New Scrap) 4% Northern and Eastern Railway National Loan Fund THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY HUNGERFORD MARKET. Fish today in good supply, and prices reasonable—Cod Is. 6d. to 4s. and 55., Turbot 3s. and 4s. up to 155., Soles 9d. and Is. to 3s. per . pair, Lobsters Is. 6d. to 3s. each. Meat Trade dull, o w i ng to the weather. Beef 60. to Sd., Mutton 7d. to Bd., Veal Si. to 92d., P or k 73, to 82d. Vegetables in increasing supply, and prices rather lo wer , In Hay and Clover no variation in price. COLONIAL MARKETS. B.Y. Sugar in tolerably fair demand at fully former prices ; lowest 535., find 65s , and middling :, IS. (1. to 5Ss. R ef i ned Sugar is quoted at 34to i pass 71s. fid. T o-day we have public salesof 6'48 ~,us Sugar, 150 cas k s 50 brls. and 000 bags B. P. Coffee; Pimento, and 145 b r l s. Jamaica and Barbadoes Ginger. 7 s. 6,1 b., bags of and Laos Lumps i‘iau i t r The Coff.ee market is without animation, and prices have a tendency to decline. The Sugar market for Mau r i t i us was firm, raid showed no signs of giving way. Spices went much as before. Rice is in good demand privately, and prices looking up. Tea—not much to anti c i pated arrivals ; prices, how. • ever, not lower. th C e ot a t r o tl i c :s e'ig invdilemand for export, and prices of East I n d ia descriptions are rather better. The imports of all kinds are now light, rather than otherwise. The sales for to-morrow are small parcels o r B.P. and Ceylon Coffee, 1,578 b ags Bengal Sugar, 200 bags Grenada ger, 230 Mids. new Barbadocs Sugar, and Cocoa, o b a, ag 2 s o s c a littspetre.- Jamaica Gin - LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MAI* 30. A large quantity of Cotton Was sold at this day's market,. and our last quotations were steadily maintained. The entire business consists of purchased by s p ecu l a t ors ; 300 B a hi a , Bd. a 6 , 810 bags, ipnce'rtii,ralining, ,1:100a0 90. ; 200 Egyptian, Sid. a 12d.; 100 Tri nidad, 71,d. ; 100 Maranhain, 7id. a 9d. ; 5,000 American, 51d. a Bd, The Right Hon. the - Earl of Chichester, and the Countcs; of Chichester and suite, arrived at the Green Park Hotel, Piccadilly, from Stant-I-ler Park, Sus.iex. A considerable sensation was created in town an Thursday last by the discovery on a dunghill of a human band. Ru. mour, with her hundred tongues, soon co F.a . gnified the matter that before night numbers believed that a Creenacre murdr • had been com mitted at Greenock. The ha - ad was a surgical preparation, which the owner, it he did not Wish to keep, ought certainly to have btlried.--. }7recvsk Adyertitcr, _ A.O L 14, 1 -WHEE S EXPLOD.EI). The Great Western performed the voyage to and from the United States in fourteen days—yet steam navigation is in its inrancy. The art of propelling vessels by Oe . wind acting on sails h as b een pract i se d for upwar d s of two thousand years ; the art of propelling them by mach"- nary, acting on the water, put in motion by steam, has scarcely been forty years in existence. The improvement that may yet be effected in it is, therefore, altogt-ther incalculable, and it already seems highly probable that a continuous speed of twenty miles per hour, under favour able circumstances, may he obtained. Happily fbr the world this new art has hitherto escaped the trammels of the well-intentioned but mistaken Legislator ; and free, e mula . - tivc competition, in every part of the civilised world, but particularly here and in the United States, is every day bringing improvements under our notice, all tending to re alise the most ardent expectations. The latest of these, Is called the patent Propeller, and is intended to supersede the use of paddles and paddle-boxes, the unsightly ap pearance of which is not greater than their practical e They are much in the way, and impede the vessel's pro gress by the resistance they offer both to the wind and wa ter. Notwithstanding, all the improvements made in thew, it has not yet been found practicable to prevent their causing: great agitation in the water, nor to work them so as not to. waste much of the steam power. The propeller has all the utility and force of the paddle, with none of its disad vantages. It conssts, according to the description of the patentee— Of an Archimedean Screw, and is fixed in the dead woa, or run of the vessel. The vessel is shaped acd rigged like other sailing vessels, so that the propeller may be used singly, or in conjunc tion with sails, or not at all, without impeding the sailing, as the No' peiier may bent:shipped at pleasure. Hence the vessel is not solely de pendent either on wind or fuel, and long voyages:nay be performed witty great saving, and as the strain of the vessel (so destructive to common , steamers) from the engines is much less, so is the wear and tear also. Itt armed steamers come into use, its appkeation must be invaluable . - The arrangement of the engines being fore z ml aft, gives space cn Use sides for live introduction of materials for their protection, and the Pm' peller is, from its position, free from gun-shot. In rivers is creates swell, so frequently productive of lass of property and life. In. c3n. r° its application would cause no injury to the banks, and the stowage — room is increased by greater breadth of beam. To prove this, an expe rimental schooner of thirty-four feet has been already built, and fair' , tried, both en the river Thames and the sea with astonishing suceeF.s. Hundreds have witnessed it, and the pilots of Gravesend and Folkstucte can bear testimony to its excellence. The Lords of the Admiralty and several scientific gen" tlemen have witnessed the performance of this little boat• and have expressed their admiration. She is only 34 l'e 4 long, 6 feet 6 incl.'s broad, and measures 6 tons. She io so small that her topmasts passed with ease under the paddle-boxes of the British Queen, under one of which she could lie with ease. Yet this tiny vessel--the very smallest steamer, perhaps, in use in the world—towed t 1,61 great ship up the river, and into the City Canal, to the astonishment, as the papers of the day remarked, of thou sands of spectators. If this useful invention realiz , t all which the patentee promises —and we see no reason to mistrust his theory or doubt his experiment—it will 6e a 5 great an improvement in navigation as the first moving of vessels with paddire-wheels. IRELAND. (FROM OUR PRIVATF: CORRESPONDENT. DUBLIN: MAY 29. Tue CONTROVERSIAL DISCUSSION.—The anxiously expected o:,leuS. sien between Mr. Gregg and the celebrated Father Maguire cor„,nencet! to-day. It took place at the Rotunda, where the public were admitted' by tickets at 3s. 6d. each, of which a vast number were ;,,posed, 1 hew Rev. Mr. Nangle was Chairman upon the part of Mr . G regg, and the Rev. Mr. Macnamara upon the part of Mr. Maguire. Mr. Gregg w3i the assailant, and he commenced by a rather len g thy i n t r odactio n • which, however, he f o ll owe d b y the exhibition of some tough facts. Mr,. Maguire rushed at o nce i n medias rer, tAi';,g up th e l ast assert i o n Ofi4 assailant, and d ea li ng w i t h i t most logic-,:fly. From elev e n o'clock too they spent thei r separate h al f houxs in attack and defence, disP l 3 % ing consummate championship. 1., would be prem a tu re an d u nfair r anticipate the result, but it is expected with great anxi e t y b y cu r sc°' o citizens. Upon Saturday, by mutual agreement, all females arc t° excluded, and of course all The world will be there. TITR ES.--7 he Waterford Chronicle states thaz a great Tithe b:cetysE is about to take place at Kilmacthomas, in that county, to petition the total and unqualitieil abolition of Tithes. This is evidence that Ministerial Bill is not popular with the party upon whom the CabiS ,44 depends for support : the numerous protests of the Protestant ClertY prove sufficiently that the Tories are not satiscied with it, and to thrie there is this day added the petition of the Archdeacon and Clergy a the diocese of Ferns. Ttte MACISTRAcY.—The Northern Whig states that in the revised Use of Magistrates for the county of Down, but one clergyman is permitted to hold the Commission of the Peace. This is a reform which, if ex-. landed to the rest of the kingdom, would give the most unbounded satisfactson. MR. COOPER'S TENANTS.—The Sligo Champion by the wny of efne• - •/ tually refuting: the denial of Mr. Cooper, that he had turned out Ms , tenants from political or religious prejudices, supplies a lout; list a families, of the head of each of which the name is given, that were' turned upon the world for no other imaginable reason, but their pro fession of the Catholic religion. THE CORPORATION.—Sergeant Greene shewed cause yesterday in t he. Queen's Bench, on the part of George Cowan, why the conditiona l order of the 23d of April, obtained by Mr. O'Connell, should not De madeabsolute. This was the case of the Quo Warrant() sought for, to examine into the rights of the freemen of the Corporation, and come quctitly to disfranchise the fictitious one,. The judgment will be given , to-morrow, but it is not anticipated that the order will be made ab solute. UNGERFORD MA RKET.—Yesterday a half-Fua general meeting of the proprietors was held at their office, L- r street ; the Earl of Devon in the chair. The Secretary read the repor t * which was very encouraging. He stated that dwellings for the aceo'n -, modation of the tenants were in the course of erection; that sleree , last meeting a portion of the debenture debt had been paid oft; th3t the surplus revenue for the present half year was cons:deraisle. Directors and auditors who went out by rotation were unanimously elected. The Chairman gave a variety of explanations its answer to Cie inquiries of proprietors, and the meeting separated highly satisfied 11 1 14 ' the prospects of the undertaking. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT. —About h a lf-past s' o'clock on Tuesday evening, the following frightful and inelanchc l r accident occurred at Kensington. As a man named Richard D 6 w ne ,"" residing in Jennings-buildings, High-street, Kensington, ing along the High-road, near the entrance to Kensington Palace, foot accidentally slipped, and he fell off the payment into the read, • the moment that a waggon belonging to Mr. Dalton, a coal-meleh anr : •• at Millbank, heavily loaded with coals, was passing by, wirer, Irte l3 l " o „ . .' choly to relate, before the horses could be stopped, the wlyeels of weighty vehicle passed over him, and injured bins in a retest frightt,:c.. manner. He was immediately picked up, and conveyed in a sta ' e ,,,, ie ;' insensibility to the shop of Mr. Morris, a chemist, close ',,y, from wi le " - , g - he was promptly taken; on a stretcher, by the police, to St. George; Hospital, when on examination it was found that his head was " 1 : 03 , dreadfully injured, the flesh on the left cheek being nearly tern oil ; was prod left arm was broken, and his hands crushed in a dreadful manner. unfortunate man had also sustained other injuries, from the (*t ee. of which scarc e l y t h e slightest hopes are entertained of his ultimate recovery. Yesterday mornincr, between ten and eleven o'cboert Teesdale, an eminent ° statuary, residing i n the New...enact, cut 1- ' throat with a penk n if e, and from the nature of the wound, it is doubt f u l if he will ever recover. During the last few days hrelrad been Di desponding state, but his manner had not been of that description whirh. was at all calculated to lead to a supposition that he meditated se rt destruction. lie was rem ove d on a shutter tre the North Lond°- Hospital, where he lies in a very alarming state ; THE MURDER IN NEWMAN'S. AIEWS.—At ir past nine o'clock on Tuesday evening, Pursuant to the warrant. of IN" - Stirling, the Coroner, Williams, the beadle, accompanied by four men. and a shell, which he had procured from the workhouse, procoethtle the house which has be en th e scene of the above tragical affair, Ibr`„,c purpose of conveying th e b o d y of Joseph Parker for interment ; 10 although the proceedi ng was endeavoured to be conducted with greatest privacy, a report of the circumstance got extensive C ir— f lotion throughout th e ne i g hb ourhood, and a vast concau " ; O people assembled a ro un d t h e premises. The body was depo , ite`. the shell pre c i se l y i n the condition and dress it was v i e wed l" br the Juty, and on b e i ng brought into the street, the greatest. _ rest and excitement prevailed amongst the multitudes 1 1 4)° e• lowed, wid er th e expectation of seeing the bady buried in one f ttr h cross.ru e ds, w i t h the usual by-gone ceremony of driving a stke 11) %,use the body, b u t ow i ng to the excellent management of the officear , who repeatedly assured the assembled crowd that the body was o ulY ,c o • conveyed to the w or kh ouse, this assertion ultimately had t" u , Oleo effect in the disp ers i on o f t h e mob, and the mournful cavale3",:pj. proceeded w ith out further molestation to the burial-ground attac" -' , g s • St. John's Wood Chapel, where it arrived about a quarter before the o'clock, and a grave of considerable depth having been prefir.c f . 4 , r an. body of the unfortunate though guilty being was consigned the e l dis _ in the presence of the churchwarden, and several gentlemen of trick, without, of course, the rites of Christian - burial. The friend of the unfortunate female, Sabina Conway, it is underse n nd, have take arrangements for a respectable funeral, and which is appointed t` i place on Friday. -eid ~• On Wednesday last, J o h n Childe of Her tR - , Place, Haggorston, the son of th e S ecretary of the Clarence re3tiw ay 00 -, Company, left his hom e f or th e purpese of visiting the City of Theatre, since which time no tidings whatever have been obtaillee",,, inter specting him. He is fou r t een years of age, about five feet in la, with dark hair and eyes. O n the Priday following, fin boy six years of age, th e son of respectable parents, in 11recclesu'fc` W street, City-road, was allow e d t o play outside of the house a • in companions, but he soon afterwards disappeared, arid all the anxi e. ` l4 ,,,, quiries of his Ether respecting hi m h ave proved unsucce ssful. parents of boil s b oys are in a state of great mental distress in co ns quence their mysterious ab sence. John Bott, Tile last accounts f rom Constantina state a ta ste violent shock of an earthquake had been recently felt there. The happened in 1836 A Kab, le of the mountains accounted for h e phenomenon by an or i en t a l tra d ition of the earth being suppor ted On one rof the horns of an immense ox, who, when tired, shifts I st burthen on to the othssr horn, and thus causes the sensation of 33 earthquake. the lands whi c h f ormerly belonged to the celebrated Hofer, Tile Vi enna G azelle conta i ns an o ff ic i a l no tice that of the 'Tyro l, are to be const i tuted as a fief under his name, and that hi: descen d a nts, l of some of the debates, a considerable amount of busi ness, ii;vested with thi s fief, are to enjoy the ri g ht o f s itting in the States of tl.e Tyrol, as mem b ers of the nobility. GENF;IIA_T- ASSEMBLY,.--The General As sembl y C;P:zN their regular proceedings last M on d a y night, but from the ex=creme ength Will remain t o be takenup by the Commission. The Edinburgh A dvcr-, riser, a prejudice.l Tory paper, says— ,, The Radical party in the Hous , e, who have One every thing in their power to persecute and oppress 114./. Young, have been foiled in their object, after wasting nearly three days in wranglings and divisions, such as that Venerable Court, we tru9t, wilt never again be doomed to witness."